nV's DX10 Cascades Demo available.

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

For those of you GF8800 owners wanting to take your DX10 part for a workout;


http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_cascades_home.html

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_cascades_downloads.html

 

[King-Of-Kings]

8O

If thats what the graphics will look like, i could say my $600 was well spent. This cards way ahead of its time, none of the games right now can show what its even close to capable of.

 

[The-Darkening]

mmm... I prefer Crysis screenshots...

 

[darkstar782]

Gah. I almost want to install Vista....

 

[triggerhappy]

Yea thats great......
instead of messing around making demos i wish they could release some decent drivers

 

[anton]

Has anyone actually tried this demo?

 

[techgeek]

Yeah I like the Crysis screenshots too, but all those screenshots have been done on DX9.0. Most of those screenshots have been out long before Vista beta started. This amazes me, cause if DX9 can look that good, just imagine what they'll be able to do with DX10 once the devs get the hang of the new API.

 

[boong]

The last time I saw this demo was when some nvidia guy showcased DX10 features on a Gamespot show using Windows XP and the demo ran on OpenGL.
So does this demo actually use Direct3D 10 now or is it just the same OpenGL demo from a few months ago?

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

Actually this is supposed to be DX10 only, and I think what you were seeing was DX10 running in software mode before as per the comments made about it. Of course I could be wrong as there's alot of confusion about which ones are running in OGL and not, this was supposed to be the first true DX10 demo (hence so much Buzz leading up to it's eventual release), not running in DX10 and not software assisted/emulated.

The FROG and Smoke demos are definitely OGL.

 

[bydesign]

It uses what I believe DX 10 run-time. At 1600x1200 maxed out on auto pilot it bogs down pretty bad maybe like 5 fps. 8800GTX over all I wasn't all that impressed with the performance.

 

[mpjesse]

Downloading it now. I'll post screenshots and let ya'll know how it runs and looks. ;-)

Thanks to GGA for posting this link. Good find brother.

 

[gomerpile]

Very nice, however dx10 games will be the true test and most certainly will be a year or more. I would assume there will be a new G-card by then.

 

[mpjesse]

OK guys, here's some actual in demo screenies I just took. Couple things to note from my perspective.

First, the water effects are a huge improvement over DX9. I'm sure with a little more tweaking they could be even better in DX10. The texture mapping of the rocks was pretty cool too. In the demo you can change the color of the lighting on the fly... doing so makes the scene look entirely different.

Overall it's cool, but I'm not all that impressed. The only thing to write home about is the water effects. And now the screenies...

(everything is at 1280x1024, 4x AA, 16X anistropic filtering... it ran well above 30FPS the entire time)

For anyone that cares, here's my system setup:
Athlon X2 4800+ (Toledo)
2GB of DDR500 RAM
XFX 8800 GTX
nForce 4 SLI motherboard
Vista Home Premium 64 bit

 

[bullaRh]

nice screens dude looks stunning but i guess its much better trying the demo :b

 

[GeneticWeapon]

For anyone that cares, here's my system setup:
Athlon X2 4800+ (Toledo)
2GB of DDR500 RAM
XFX 8800 GTX
nForce 4 SLI motherboard
Vista Home Premium 64 bit

An 8800GTX runing in 1280x1024......now there's a smart purchase...






:roll:

 

[mpjesse]

hey, high speed, stfu. I'm running all my games at 1600x1200 w/ 16X AA, and 16X AS and my desktop at same resolution. I ran the demo at 1280x1024 for the sake of high frame rates because, after all, this is a brand new API and driver. would you like me to take some fcuking 1600x1200 screenshots for you pumpkin?

jesus h. christ.

 

[mpjesse]

here's 1600x1200. happy?

 

[choirbass]

by the time more demanding DX10 titles arrive, 1280x1024 (4aa 16af), might be considered [much] more resource hungry resolutions and settings than were seeing here... (if that makes sense)

 

[mpjesse]

EXACTLY. and judging from this demo, that's absolutely true. 1600x1200 ran OK... (between 20-30fps), but 1280x1024 was nice and smooth.

and this demo is relatively simple. imagine crysis in DX10 at 1600x1200.

 

[MowTin]

I ran it at 1600x1200 and didn't notice any performance drop from 1280x960.

Overall it's not a very impressive demo...just rocks and water splashing on rocks. I get the sense the what I'm looking at can't be done on DX9...especially...the wet effect and the particle effect of the watter fall.

But you just don't feel..."Wow, this is a totally new level."

 

[mpjesse]

But you just don't feel..."Wow, this is a totally new level."

agreed. to me, Adriane was "wow". but now that DX10 is out, maybe we'll get some more cool demos from nVidia in the near future.

 

[M_with_one_M]

Could someone make a video of this. I liked the screen shots, but I would really like to see it in action.

 

[Heyyou27]

Geneticweopon is not the smartest tool in the shed so I wouldn't worry about him to much :lol:

You also have to take your CPU into consideration as it is a bottleneck to the 8800GTX.

Actually, he's not dumb; he's pretty hardcore when it comes to graphics and if he thinks you've made a foolish purchase, he isn't afraid to say it.

 

[mpjesse]

Could someone make a video of this. I liked the screen shots, but I would really like to see it in action.

lemme see what i can do with fraps

 

[gomerpile]

What I really can see is the change of global rendering compared to object rendering